Victor was a journalist. A quiet man but with attention to detail. When he was found dead, pushed under a cart and had died, his sister Nurse Gemma knew her cautious brother could not have been so careless. His notebook had a cryptic sentence. “Milky Way and red streaks” Gemma knew her intuition would be met with skepticism until she met Inspector Sebastian who did not brush her feelings aside.
The setting of the 1850s, the number of aristocrats and rich involved in this murder and then you get the middle class like Gemma, Victor and Sebastian trying to find justice and being coerced and ridiculed by society and worse by their peers who side with the rich covering up all their sins of both omission and commission.
This has been a recurring feature in books set in this era. How even questioning an earl or a son of a viscount was considered out of bounds and they got away with murder, rape, abuse of women.
The setting was gothic almost and very descriptive.
Detective work was not easy and bringing the culprits to book was going to be either the saving of the Detective or his end.
Sent by Storm Publishing for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley
If someone can manage to bring off the 1850s well in a book, then it's a great read, I think.
ReplyDeleteAnything set in or around Highgate cemetery! Thanks for the heads up about this book. I totally want to check it out. :D
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